About

A lawyer well known for her methodological and disciplined approach to work, Luisa Fernández Mejía has worked at the helm of the corporate affairs function at the metals and mining company Drummond for over three years. At the onset of her professional career, after graduating with an LLM from Duke University in 1987, Fernandez went to work in the Los Angeles based law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson for a year, and then spent two years as a legal advisor to the President of Colombia. Fernández Mejía then worked briefly as an advisor to the General Superintendent of Ports and Superintendent of Exchange Control, and between 1993 and 1996 served as an assistant to Judge Carlos Esteban Jaramillo H. S. in the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court. In 1999, Fernández Mejía joined Colombian law firm Estudios Palacios Lleras and worked there for 14 years, combining the role with the duties of a professor in administration at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Fernández Mejía has worked at Drummond for three years and currently specialises in administrative law, proceedings before public authorities, litigation, infrastructure and ports.